Fifteen hundred feet above Miami, the tiny plane shakes like the last leaf on a dying tree. Below, the suburbs of Kendall and Pinecrest stretch for miles like a massive...
Brian Posehn is an American comedian of hefty build. Thanks to his gray and red beard, he could easily be an Amish farmer for Halloween. But that's not how people know him....
Fans literally faint with rapture during Sigur Rós concerts. It's all due to the Icelandic postrock band's haunting bowed guitar, sparse arrangements, and lyrics sung...
While on hiatus from smoking crystal meth, creating absurd performance art, and speaking bad French in Paris, a young David Sedaris did a brief stint as a department store elf...
How do you attract the peepers to your spanking-new 250,000-square-foot art and automobile museum during a whirlwind December when the eyes of the international art scene have...
Five months ago, Miami New Times exposed a taxpayer-funded voucher program that, even on the overblown Floridian scale of dysfunction, is a stunning boondoggle. Students who...
Luther Campbell, the man whose booty-shaking madness made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week,...
Cellblock Strippers Drug lord's due: I'm all for your revelations that Miami's downtown Federal Detention Center is overrun with strippers posing as paralegals to the...
From its South Florida headquarters, Purebredbreeders.com matches up thousands of pet lovers around the country every week with purebred puppies through a "network of...
Over the past six months, Erik Fresen has established himself as the go-to politician for the gambling tycoons who want to bring gargantuan casino resorts to the Magic...
In the summer of 2009, "Shadows," a four-minute-three-second slice of sweet and dreamy, though slightly dark indie-pop by Williamsburg band Au Revoir Simone, provided the...
When American Idol started in the early '00s, it had an almost public-access charm about it. There was Simon Cowell's relative unkemptness, the smallness of the stage, and the...
Man, no one loves to give away massive amounts of cash like the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Last week, the foundation held its annual Knight Arts Challenge award...
Yes, suave Frenchman and electronic stud Cedric Gervais is one of Planet Earth's top disc jockeys to the stars, especially the TV types, sports celebs, talking heads,...
Ever since Sean Michael Anderson snatched up a mike and spit some rhymes, this 23-year-old rapper from Detroit has seemed to be dropping hints about the enormity of his future...
Has My Morning Jacket come full circle? The title of its latest album, Circuital, would suggest as much. The band has certainly traveled a long way in just over a decade. But...
It's been five full years since Time Magazine named Daddy Yankee to its list of the 100 most influential people on the planet. And using the mag's metaphor, the recording...
Invented in the late '80s by electronics wizard Roger Linn, the Music Production Center is a pimped-out drum machine on steroids, usually equipped with eight to 16 pressure-...
SushiSamba Dromo is the less-talked-about older sister of Sugarcane Raw Bar. The latter is currently in her prime, and has been aggressively courted by the public since a...
In Lynne Ramsay's We Need to Talk About Kevin, Tilda Swinton lives out an urban bohemian's worst nightmare. Forced to give up her independence (and downtown loft) when a...
